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Wed Apr 26 05:06:00 1995
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 05:05:23 -0400
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cfields (Craig Fields):
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 10:47:20 PDT
From: Jose Reynaldo Setti <setti@civoffice.watstar.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: The risks of flying pigs
The Toronto Globe and Mail reports that a commercial jet carrying 72 pigs
and 300 human passengers had to make an emergency landing after having its
fire alarms triggered by excessive levels of methane, ammonia and body heat
in the cargo hold where the pigs were traveling (you surely did not expect
that the pigs were traveling economy class). Apparently, excessive
flatulence, urine, droppings and the heat generated by the bodies of the
pigs caused the automated fire-extinguishing system to flood the cargo hold
with halon, killing 15 of the very valuable hogs. The risks of flying pigs
are evident.
Jose' Reynaldo Setti <setti@civoffice.watstar.uwaterloo.ca>, Visiting
University of Waterloo (Canada) from University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
travel:
texas (ugh) again, may 8th.
toys:
The metricom "ricochet" modems are *amazing*. kermit is giving
me 1500-2000 cps for large file transfers, from around 750ft away...
and a large encrypted rcp got closer to 2500 cps.
My new subnotebook is neat -- but unreliable. Hopefully they'll
swap it quickly.
My old subnotebook is for sale -- see
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/eichin/laptop.html
for details...
hacking:
Linux is subtle and nasty in places. This says it better:
"linux is like a twinkie, it tastes good and it will be aroud for ever"
-- michael webb (flapper@panda.uiowa.edu)
New: buflog.el -- log the amount of time wasted *per emacs buffer*.
Since I spend all of my time in emacs, I'll better be able to
write progress reports...
$Date: 1995/04/26 00:36:44 $ $Revision: 1.113 $
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jmkohl (Jonathan M. Kohl):
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
Chairing the Program Committee for the Winter 1997 USENIX conference
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lnp (Lisa N Berkenbilt):
My new name: Lisa N Paradis Berkenbilt
Work: Engineering Research Associates
1595 Springhill Rd, Vienna, VA 22182
(703)-734-8800
Moving to the Northern VA area?? Interested in Star Trek??
Then ask about joining the Shuttle Athena (dontcha love
the name?? it has nothing to do with MIT, really :-))
For more information, send a note wtih a SASE to
Shuttle Athena
PO Box 311
Merrifield, VA 22116-0311
or send e-mail to lnp@mit.edu or paradis@ERA.COM
or visit the STARFLEET web page
(http://www.halcyon.com/dyar/strfleet.html)
and look for the Region 1 Shuttle Athena.
Plan: be living proof that there IS life after MIT
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